Gustav Fehn

Gustav Fehn (21 February 1892-5 June 1945) was a General der Panzertruppe of Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht and the acting commander of the Afrika Korps from November 1942 to 15 January 1943.

Biography
Gustav Fehn was born on 21 February 1892 in Nuremberg, Bavaria, and he served in the Imperial German Army during World War I. Fehn remained in the Reichswehr after the war and became a Generalmajor in the German Wehrmacht in April 1940 and General der Panzertruppe in November 1942. That month, Fehn was sent to North Africa to become the acting commander of the Afrika Korps, and he sent a message to Adolf Hitler saying that the corps had exhausted its ammunition, lost all of its equipment, and virtually fought to the last man. He was injured in January 1943 and sent to a hospital, and he was sent to command the XV Mountain Corps in the Balkans. On 5 June 1945, he was captured by Yugoslav Partisans near Ljubljana, Yugoslavia (present-day Slovenia) and executed without trial.